If the program requires the memory in the card, current programming practices will almost ensure that it will fail. Since the program probably does not have the flexibility that our brain has, it will probably crash in some sort of horrendous way. Actually (pulls out the memory card of his Android 2.2 device)... buh-bye applications!!!
No, it isn't a non-story at all. Even if they did just submit it to get it rejected, the rejection itself is still evil and worthy of exposure.
Flash was bad enough as it was, but rejecting an app. on purely big company political grounds? That's something entirely different. This is pure censorship, and they should be in jail for endangering free speech.
They did make their playground the only legal playground to be in. Jail-braking does of course not matter in this regard.
They did. Ever noticed that you turn a USB connector around because it does not fit, it still does not fit? And when you turn it again and again, it suddenly it fits? They simply must have used the fourth or higher dimension to pull that off.
It's only four wires that need to be connected. They could easily have specified two receiving ports, a cheap one with a single orientation (and of course an asymmetrical design) and one that would accept both orientations. Of course, the plastic surrounding the port could also play a role in guiding the connector. As it stands, it is sometimes easier to connect one of those infernal DVI connectors than a USB connector.
PS mod parent up, not the responses that basically repeat what was said
Uh, why would that be a wonderful hack? It's not like the games will auto-magically recognize the device or anything. USB and Linux are already working, if you can get those to work on your PS or Wii, you are all set.
Yeah, but at least they now can measure the distance and direction in which they are flying. Maybe they could fill the room with anti-depressants when the chairs are flying 2 meters or more, or when they are targeting people in the room.
Yeah, well, I visited some family in Switzerland and my relative showed his game consoles. I had never seen an X360 in use. The first thing that it did was spiral to the red ring of death. And it was certainly just in open space.
Personally, I presume most of the others do work, but according to *my* experiences, the thing is a disaster.
PS. typing this on a MS curved keyboard, I think that the MS 4000 keyboard is the best keyboard I've ever typed on (although even those tend to break down - 2 down and counting). I've got nothing against MS hardware per se.
Almost all optical drives are generic models with some kind of plastic bezel put on for appearance. If you've got one of those, you can buy a simple HDD bracket from NewMode US. Personally I put the SSD in there since I wasn't sure about heat transfer and it saved me from messing up my original HDD bracket. Then boot from USB with GParted Live CD and shrink/copy your system partition from HDD (don't forget to make the SSD bootable) and away you go.
It would be nice if laptops of the future reserve some space for both a small form factor SSD and a traditional HDD. I hate connecting those external drives to a laptop, it's such a nuisance if you want to view a movie while traveling. For backup they are brilliant, but I don't want anything much larger than the USB connector itself connected to USB while traveling.
The additional HDD bracket in the optical drive does not make an economical choice for anything under 100-120 GB or so, but if you go over that you will quickly start to save money.
I've tried it and got into it. I gave up once I found out that they somehow think that exception handling shouldn't be a first citizen. I mean, building a *monolithic* API loosely based on Java without exception handling? They are as mad as the name implies, it's about the only non-googleable name in the language multi-verse.
I typed in a very strong reply, but I think I can sum it up with: he mostly seems to make those decisions firstly for his own good, then Microsoft (with their business practices) and maybe just a bit for the public good. Just making multi billion decisions does not put him on a pedestal or anything. And if you don't TAKE RESPONSIBILITY, then having responsibility does not mean very much.
Selling shares because it gives him more leeway to avoid paying tax, sheesh, I could take that kind of "billion dollar decisions" while taking a dump. And he possibly did just that. I don't see him taking a month off because of the strain of that decision, that's for sure.
Yep, basically this is an old story being played over and over again. The big question if these kind of sentiments will screw up the Java community enough to migrate away.Of course, I do presume that most people won't read either Slashdot or the Register. Certainly, if they do, they should be warned ad nauseum about the way both tend to report on certain kinds of matters.
In the case of The Register you could substitute that with "on all kind of matters". Basically the way The Register reports is that it takes an early stance on an issue, and then they make a mockery of their enemies in all the follow up articles. This makes for fun reading, but they should have chosen a black and white color theme instead of red and white for their front page.
I think there is a lot of things said for using Java over C++, most of which count because of faster development time, more *compatible* libraries but also indifference to CPU used. What I never understood from Java is that it is *too* conservative regarding which features to support. If I would setup a framework, I would make it more modularized, plugable, so that developers *can* use all the hardware features of a particular platform. After that you make sure that "Java compatible" applications always have a generic way of doing things - e.g. the way that OpenGL also runs in software.
Just depending on the features that are fully generic over all systems is taking it a bit far, and I think that is the main reason why Google could not opt for Java ME (at least from a technical point of view).
That is not entirely true of course, some languages are a better match for writing emulators in than other languages.
For instance, Java does not have some common shift operations on byte and short's. It also does not have any unsigned data types, which makes it even harder.
JavaScript of course does not even have a byte or a short, which add all kinds of "fun" for the programmer of emulators.
Note that JavaScript is not the most obvious language to write an emulator in. Java byte code is already a lot better, but for maximum speed you really want to go for C/C++ or a comparable language.
JavaScript is much slower than Java and C/C++, and this is even more so if you have to do a lot of small mathematical operations on things like bytes and shorts. Take a look at cryptographic operations performed in JavaScript and compare than with other non-interpreted languages.
Now the latest interpreters made a *lot* of progress on this particular field, and computers have become frightfully fast, but simulating a CPU will still be kind of tough, even if it is just a Z80 with a very low clock speed.
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No matter, by then I will have customized Asics, I'll probably be able to outrun them.
If the program requires the memory in the card, current programming practices will almost ensure that it will fail. Since the program probably does not have the flexibility that our brain has, it will probably crash in some sort of horrendous way. Actually (pulls out the memory card of his Android 2.2 device) ... buh-bye applications!!!
But they are fuckin' close related to each other... Stupid true-isms, never true in the real sense of the word.
Well, it was a bit of a gamble to quote from that particular movie anyway. I was not offended - and somebody even got the quote :)
What, you think that all the chaos and mayhem in either Mexico and Nigeria has a grand master plan behind it to take over the country?
Should we already start looking for Spectre?
Whoops, wrong parent (who's parents did you have?).
180, you stupid, spaghetti-slurping cretin - *180*! If I did a 360, I'd go completely around and end up back where I started!
No, it isn't a non-story at all. Even if they did just submit it to get it rejected, the rejection itself is still evil and worthy of exposure.
Flash was bad enough as it was, but rejecting an app. on purely big company political grounds? That's something entirely different. This is pure censorship, and they should be in jail for endangering free speech.
They did make their playground the only legal playground to be in. Jail-braking does of course not matter in this regard.
Actually, we have no idea what he's looking for (and I don't think he does either). "Paint custom objects"? That could mean just about anything.
Yeah, we could propose eggs and paint, and not know if it fills the requirement.
Don't you think Bill would prefer somebody who can write down coherent sentences? Maybe even sentences without basic grammar mistakes?
As we are running out of natural resources, I'm certainly not betting against any war in the future.
They did. Ever noticed that you turn a USB connector around because it does not fit, it still does not fit? And when you turn it again and again, it suddenly it fits? They simply must have used the fourth or higher dimension to pull that off.
It's only four wires that need to be connected. They could easily have specified two receiving ports, a cheap one with a single orientation (and of course an asymmetrical design) and one that would accept both orientations. Of course, the plastic surrounding the port could also play a role in guiding the connector. As it stands, it is sometimes easier to connect one of those infernal DVI connectors than a USB connector.
PS mod parent up, not the responses that basically repeat what was said
Not really, I'm old enough to have seen it on Slashdot multiple times :)
Uh, why would that be a wonderful hack? It's not like the games will auto-magically recognize the device or anything. USB and Linux are already working, if you can get those to work on your PS or Wii, you are all set.
Yeah, but at least they now can measure the distance and direction in which they are flying. Maybe they could fill the room with anti-depressants when the chairs are flying 2 meters or more, or when they are targeting people in the room.
Yeah, well, I visited some family in Switzerland and my relative showed his game consoles. I had never seen an X360 in use. The first thing that it did was spiral to the red ring of death. And it was certainly just in open space.
Personally, I presume most of the others do work, but according to *my* experiences, the thing is a disaster.
PS. typing this on a MS curved keyboard, I think that the MS 4000 keyboard is the best keyboard I've ever typed on (although even those tend to break down - 2 down and counting). I've got nothing against MS hardware per se.
Almost all optical drives are generic models with some kind of plastic bezel put on for appearance. If you've got one of those, you can buy a simple HDD bracket from
NewMode US. Personally I put the SSD in there since I wasn't sure about heat transfer and it saved me from messing up my original HDD bracket. Then boot from USB with GParted Live CD and shrink/copy your system partition from HDD (don't forget to make the SSD bootable) and away you go.
It would be nice if laptops of the future reserve some space for both a small form factor SSD and a traditional HDD. I hate connecting those external drives to a laptop, it's such a nuisance if you want to view a movie while traveling. For backup they are brilliant, but I don't want anything much larger than the USB connector itself connected to USB while traveling.
The additional HDD bracket in the optical drive does not make an economical choice for anything under 100-120 GB or so, but if you go over that you will quickly start to save money.
I've tried it and got into it. I gave up once I found out that they somehow think that exception handling shouldn't be a first citizen. I mean, building a *monolithic* API loosely based on Java without exception handling? They are as mad as the name implies, it's about the only non-googleable name in the language multi-verse.
I typed in a very strong reply, but I think I can sum it up with: he mostly seems to make those decisions firstly for his own good, then Microsoft (with their business practices) and maybe just a bit for the public good. Just making multi billion decisions does not put him on a pedestal or anything. And if you don't TAKE RESPONSIBILITY, then having responsibility does not mean very much.
Selling shares because it gives him more leeway to avoid paying tax, sheesh, I could take that kind of "billion dollar decisions" while taking a dump. And he possibly did just that. I don't see him taking a month off because of the strain of that decision, that's for sure.
You get bashed by patents, that is what happens. Personally I don't see *any* benefits of it being open source the way they play it out now.
Yep, basically this is an old story being played over and over again. The big question if these kind of sentiments will screw up the Java community enough to migrate away.Of course, I do presume that most people won't read either Slashdot or the Register. Certainly, if they do, they should be warned ad nauseum about the way both tend to report on certain kinds of matters.
In the case of The Register you could substitute that with "on all kind of matters". Basically the way The Register reports is that it takes an early stance on an issue, and then they make a mockery of their enemies in all the follow up articles. This makes for fun reading, but they should have chosen a black and white color theme instead of red and white for their front page.
I think there is a lot of things said for using Java over C++, most of which count because of faster development time, more *compatible* libraries but also indifference to CPU used. What I never understood from Java is that it is *too* conservative regarding which features to support. If I would setup a framework, I would make it more modularized, plugable, so that developers *can* use all the hardware features of a particular platform. After that you make sure that "Java compatible" applications always have a generic way of doing things - e.g. the way that OpenGL also runs in software.
Just depending on the features that are fully generic over all systems is taking it a bit far, and I think that is the main reason why Google could not opt for Java ME (at least from a technical point of view).
That is not entirely true of course, some languages are a better match for writing emulators in than other languages.
For instance, Java does not have some common shift operations on byte and short's. It also does not have any unsigned data types, which makes it even harder.
JavaScript of course does not even have a byte or a short, which add all kinds of "fun" for the programmer of emulators.
Note that JavaScript is not the most obvious language to write an emulator in. Java byte code is already a lot better, but for maximum speed you really want to go for C/C++ or a comparable language.
JavaScript is much slower than Java and C/C++, and this is even more so if you have to do a lot of small mathematical operations on things like bytes and shorts. Take a look at cryptographic operations performed in JavaScript and compare than with other non-interpreted languages.
Now the latest interpreters made a *lot* of progress on this particular field, and computers have become frightfully fast, but simulating a CPU will still be kind of tough, even if it is just a Z80 with a very low clock speed.